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Jin’Rokh went down after 40-something attempts. This is an incredibly unforgiving fight when it comes to mechanics, but we finally got a couple good passes sub 20% and saw the light, and then everything came together for a great kill pass. Look at all those skellies!!!

Tonight will be our first attempts on Jin’rokh HM. Any advice?
As the enrage is rather forgiving, we’re planning to avoid/ease most of the HM mechanics by ignoring the pools. We’ll see how it goes.
Also, thoughts on optimal kill order for HM progression?

Well, Twin Consorts was a total pushover.
Dead in two attempts on 10 man, and on our first night of 25 man progression attempts, dead in one shot. I forgot to swap out of my arms spec from doing some PvP. Maybe I should do that more often.

After a late start to our last raid of the week and a couple enrage wipes, on the very last pull of the night we downed Iron Qon with 30 seconds to spare on the enrage timer. Once we got the positioning in P1 sorted and lived through the tornadoes in P2, it really wasn’t that bad.

Dark Animus went down.
After relatively few attempts (compared to Tortos or Ji’kun) we took out Dark Animus last week. After a good night last night, clearing up to Durumu, we are well positioned to work on Iron Qon this week, and with a few tweaks to positioning and grouping, hopefully we’ll get him down and move on to Twin Consorts. Stay tuned for updates

I’ve made some updates to the Fury guide. It will take time to complete.

In other news, not only are we back to raiding ever since MoP came out, we are at 25 man strength again and loving it! It’s been a tough road to keep 25 man going, but we’re hopeful we can pull it off for a long, long time. We finished t14 with full normal clears and 7/16 heroic. Currently we’re 8/12 in Throne of Thunder.
My officers are doing a great job of raid leading and managing stuff, which helps a lot!

It’s been a while since my last post. WoW has been pretty slow lately. We’re still struggling with recruiting as a 25 man group, but hoping to get back into the hard mode game this week–if only we could get a full raid.

In the meantime, I’ve been playing SWTOR quite a bit–a few of us have. It’s fun, but my laptop was really struggling, which was part of the catalyst propelling me to convince my wife that a new computer was in order. I had to sacrifice my laptop to do it, and various other things that I don’t need to go into here, but everything arrived from NewEgg yesterday afternoon, and I got busy putting it all together as soon as I got home from work. It is not uber-top-of-the-line as I do have to pay for this stuff, but I’m very happy with my selections.

All said and done a price tag just short of $1500, including Win7, various cables, etc.

I do not have any advanced bench-marking tools, but it performed very well on the Windows Index, lowest was the i5 at 7.4. Everything else was 7.8. I have not been able to test is much yet, as by 2.30 this morning I was loading software and had to get to bed. I can’t wait to see how this beast handles SWTOR and D3 (when it comes out).

Here are a couple shots I snapped on my phone. Look for more updates in the next couple days.